Author: Friends of Windmill Gardens

Sue and Gilbert Young shared their story about Brixton Windmill at a group recording session held on 8 June 2013. While training as a student nurse, Sue remembers visiting Brixton Prison. Looking out of a window on the visit, she was surprised to see the 
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June Stillman has been visiting Brixton Windmill for nearly 30 years. She organised Girl’s Brigade outings to the Mill in the 1980s and has taken hundreds of photographs of the building. June recently cut the ribbon to open the new mural in Windmill Gardens. Here 
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Robert Burns talks about his great-great-grandparents moving to Brixton from Bethnal Green.  
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Kate Ruby describes the first time she saw Brixton Windmill, when she was working in Brixton Prison.  
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Florence Hall remembers scrumping – and getting caught! – around Brixton Windmill.  
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Hector Marshalleck sings the praises of Brixton’s heritage, including Brixton Windmill.  
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Just before Christmas three generations of Ashbys, the family that produced and sold flour at Brixton Windmill from 1816-1934, visited Brixton Windmill.
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Two new part-time staff are being employed to help develop the new Brixton Windmill Centre, thanks to funding from Power to Change.
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Steward and education volunteer "It's early days yet but I've enjoyed meeting the other volunteers and finding out about the history of the windmill. I knew the mill before it was renovated and it's nice to be involved in the regeneration - if only in a small way."
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